Release Notes
Welcome to Komodo, ActiveState's Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This
document accompanies Komodo version 2.0.1 for Windows and Linux.
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Komodo 2.0.1 for Windows: October, 2002
Komodo 2.0 beta 3 for Linux: October, 2002
Komodo 2.0 beta 2 for Linux: September, 2002
Komodo 2.0 for Windows: September, 2002
- Project Manager
- add Run commands to projects
- add GUI dialogs to projects (Komodo Pro)
- add Web services to projects
- add macros to projects
- add code snippets to projects
- organize objects into folders
- import groups of files from the filesystem
- organize the order of objects in projects
- drag items to and from the Project Manager to the Toolbox and Editor
- Toolbox
- add Run commands to the toolbox
- add GUI dialogs to the toolbox (Komodo Pro)
- add Web services to the toolbox
- add macros to the toolbox
- add code snippets to the toolbox
- add code snippets to the toolbox
- organize objects into folders
- drag items to and from the Toolbox to the Project Manager and Editor
- Customizable Key Bindings
for standard Komodo functions, and for macros and Run commands
- Source Code Control integration
for CVS and Perforce (Komodo Pro)
- Visual Package Manager
integration (Komodo Pro)
- GUI Builder for
building graphical applications (Komodo Pro)
- Macros for recording
and repeating common keystroke sequences
- Create code snippets
by selecting code in the editor pane and dropping it into the Project
Manager or Toolbox
- Enhanced "Run" Command
- save run command to the Toolbox
- new shortcuts, including escaped % symbol, URL-escaped selection, etc
- specify starting directory for command
- specify run location (output window, new console, no console)
- specify environment variables
- save advanced options (such as environment variables) as Run command
defaults
- Function Search
to quickly find Perl packages and subs, Python or PHP classes and
functions, and Tcl procs
- Incremental Search
- HTML Preview Tab
- Customizable Language Help
- Customizable
Cursor, Current Line, Selection and Background Colors
- "Mark All" option in Find dialog
- "Remove All Bookmarks" command
- Printing
enhancements
- Background Syntax Checking
- hover mouse over icon for total number of errors and warnings
- double-click icon to move the editing cursor to the next error or
warning
- Tip of the Day
- Ctrl+Tab
switches between the two most recently opened or edited files
- Ability to re-order open files by dragging-and-dropping file tabs in the
editor
pane
- File tab context
menu with common file tasks, such as saving and accessing
source code control commands
- Ctrl+X and Ctrl+C
take entire lines if no text is selected, and will continue to
accumulate lines
- Ctrl+Shift+V
pastes and selects the pasted text
- Improved word
wrapping
- Partial word
movement
- Overtype / insert
toggle support
- Search through the document for the
word under the
cursor
- Web service proxies
in Perl programs
- Brace matching
- Transposing characters
- Literal characters
Komodo 2.0 beta 2 for Windows: September, 2002
Komodo 2.0 beta 1 for Linux: September, 2002
Komodo 2.0 beta 1 for Windows: August, 2002
Komodo 1.2.9: July, 2002
The following issues were addressed in Komodo 1.2.x releases:
Editor
- (Windows only) Syntax checking now works properly for files located on
a network.
- (Tcl, Perl and PHP) Double-clicking variables now selects the variable
prefix.
- When dragging and dropping text into the editor pane, Komodo no longer
attempts to open a new file.
- When dragging and dropping text from the editor pane to other parts of
Komodo, Komodo was crashing. This has been fixed.
- When calltips are displayed, tip highlighting now progresses
as statement components are entered in the editor.
- When opening large HTML files in the editor, Komodo no longer displays
a syntax error warning.
- Search and replace strings containing backslashes are now handled
properly.
- The error regarding invalid regular expressions during search and replace
has been fixed.
- Templates in language directories are now correctly included in the
language categories.
General Debugging
- Watched variables can be manipulated regardless of whether or not the
debugger is running.
- When the debugger is running, use Ctrl+F10 to run the debugger to the
current cursor position.
- When the debugger is running, the current line is now highlighted. The
highlighting is dimmed when a stack other than the current stack is selected.
- The debugger now positions the current line in the middle of the editor
pane.
Perl Editing and Debugging
- Socket errors in Perl debugger connections have been fixed by the
addition of a new configuration item. Select Edit|Preferences|Debugger,
and enter the socket port in the Perl Listener Port field. The "CallKomodo"
configuration of the PERLDB_OPTS is no longer used, and can be removed.
See Debugging
Perl Remotely for more information.
- Support for the overload.pm module has been added.
- Evals in included files no longer fail when stepping into the included
file.
- "Here" doc styling is now supported.
PHP Editing and Debugging
- Komodo now fails gracefully if the php.ini file does not exist in the
specified location.
- Autocompletion is now available inside strings.
- The icon on the Komodo start page now correctly shows when PHP has been
enabled.
- Autocompletion no longer fails inside certain string elements.
- Syntax checking now functions on large PHP files.
- PHP configuration is correctly reloaded if it is changed.
- Autocompletion now picks up changes in the php.ini file.
- The PHP 4.1 / 4.2 debugger extension is included with the Komodo
distribution. Note that the 4.1 debugger extension functions with PHP
version 4.2.
Tcl Editing and Debugging
- Breakpoints can now be set in included files.
- For Tcl Dev Kit users, Prowrap was being incorrectly called, rather than
Procheck.
Other
- PDK version 4.0 is now supported.
- The Rx Toolkit has better font styling.
- To speed initial startup, sample Web services are no longer added to
the Komodo Preferences.
Web Services
- When parsing WSDLs, there is now schema support for complex types
(however, not all schema is supported).
- The WSDL parser now parses all XMethods.com WSDL files.
Komodo 1.2.7 RC1 for Windows and Linux: March, 2002
Komodo 1.2 for Windows and Linux: December, 2001
Web Service Consumption
Komodo provides Web service support!
Keep a library of Web service
bookmarks; quickly add
Web services to Perl, Python
or PHP files (including automatic language support like CallTips and AutoCompletion
for Web service objects); browse your Web service bookmark library in the Komodo User Guide.
Share Recipes with the ASPN Cookbook
Komodo provides a fast, easy
way to share recipes.
Submit your favorite Perl regular expression or Python, Tcl or XSLT code snippet
to the ASPN Cookbook.
Enhanced Editing
The Komodo editor
detects files that have changed
on disk, and gives you the option to reload. Komodo also remembers the "state"
of each file in the
Most Recently Used
list, including cursor position, bookmarks, fold points, language association,
and whitespace preference. Undo changes to a file using the
Revert File function.
Quickly
select blocks of code
when performing editing functions; configure text to
auto-wrap
in the editor and to auto-save
at the interval you prefer.
Keyboard Shortcuts
New keyboard shortcuts include
Ctrl+Insert (copy), Shift+Delete (cut), Shift+Insert (paste) and Ctrl+<debug command>
(suppress Debug Options dialog). Note that you can also use the Ctrl key in conjunction with the
Debugging Toolbar buttons to suppress display of the Debugging Options dialog.
Find and Replace
Search and / or
Replace
a word or phrase in all documents open in the Komodo editor. Use the new tab
on the Output Pane to view all results from Find or Replace operations.
Templates and Macros
Code faster with language-specific
templates.
Create custom templates, and embed
variables for
date and time stamps.
Perl Dev Kit Support
Use Komodo in conjunction with the
Perl Dev Kit to build Windows
executables, services and controls written in Perl.
Tcl Support
With a membership to ASPN Tcl, use Komodo's
syntax checking
and debugging with Tcl.
FTP Support
Edit
remote files on FTP servers; add
remote files to projects; save files
to remote FTP servers. Use Komodo's Preferences
to configure connection information for servers you use frequently.
Komodo User Guide
Search
the User Guide or find a word or phrase in
the current page;
navigate using the Table of Contents; change the
font size. Take
a visual tour of
the Komodo Workspace,
the Komodo Debugger,
the Komodo Editor or
the Rx Toolkit.
Komodo Tutorials
Learn about new languages and language-specific
Komodo features in the Tutorials.
PHP
Now supports
AutoCompletion.
Fonts and Colors
Customize the display of
fonts and colors
for elements of every language supported by Komodo.
CGI Debugging Emulation
Emulate a CGI environment while debugging
on your local machine by configuring
server
environment variables and
form input.
Enhanced Debugging
Expanded
Debugging Options
remember your debug settings from one session to another; view HTML output
on the Output tab;
configure the
Remote Debugging Listener Port;
enter program input on the
Output tab.
Run Commands
Interact with the command line using the
Run Commands
function.
Internationalization
Set the default encoding for files in
Komodo's
Preferences.
While Komodo does not yet support editing outside of the English character set,
non-English characters in existing files will be preserved.
Komodo 1.2 beta 1 for Linux: November 2001
Komodo 1.2 beta 2 for Windows: November, 2001
Komodo 1.2 beta 1 for Windows: October, 2001
Komodo 1.1: June, 2001
PHP Debugging Enjoy PHP syntax checking and debugging with Komodo.
You can configure Komodo to debug PHP files locally or within a web server environment. For more
information, see Debugging Programs in the Online Help.
XSLT Debugging - This release supports XSLT debugging.
Komodo allows you to view your XSLT file, your XML input file, and your output
simultaneously. You can even open an XML file on your web server and transform
the file while you debug your XSLT program. We've also improved the sample
XSLT file in our Sample Project. For more information on XSLT debugging, see
Debugging Programs in the Online Help.
Tcl support - You can now use Komodo to edit your Tcl files,
including syntax coloring, code folding, autocomplete and calltips. We added a
Tcl file to our Sample Project. If you have Tcl Dev Kit, you can enjoy Tcl syntax
checking within Komodo. We plan to include stand-alone syntax checking that does not
require Tcl Dev Kit in an upcoming release. Komodo does not yet support Tcl debugging.
Improved Performance - This release is based on the latest Mozilla
tree, which includes an optimized code base. Performance improvements include
faster installation and startup and faster response while you type or change
files. Komodo responds much faster during debugging,
when opening files and switching between files, and when loading the File
Associations pane in the Preferences dialog.
Support for more languages - You can now use Komodo to edit Ruby and
other languages, such as VB and SQL.
Improvements for Komodo on Linux - You can now resize the
Komodo workspace, you can use fixed-width fonts, and you can debug Perl scripts if you have Perl 5.6 installed
and configured.
XML Autocomplete - Komodo now features autocomplete for your XML
files. When you type an open angle-bracket "<", Komodo lists
the elements in your file. Komodo XML autocomplete also lists tag attributes and suggests attribute values for
certain values. XML Autocomplete also helps you close your tags.
Expanded Find and Replace dialog - You can now use regular
expressions in your find and replace strings, you can search through folded text, and more.
Partial Unicode support - Komodo supports ASCII, Latin-1 and Unicode
(UTF-8, UCS-2 or UCS-4) encoding. If you use Komodo to edit a file that has a
different character encoding than those mentioned above, non-English characters
may be removed when you save the file.
Komodo 1.0: April, 2001
Komodo .1: November, 2000
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To view the status of outstanding Komodo issues, including those that have
been fixed in this release, or to add comments or additional issues, please visit the
Komodo Bug Database.
- If you get the error "
Internal Error 2738. CHECK_INSTALLDIR "
during installation, reinstall the Windows scripting host. See
Software Requirements on Windows in
the Installation Guide.
- Windows NT users may need to manually move their license file from
\WINNT\Profiles\[username]\ActiveState to
\WINNT\Profiles\[username]\Application Data\ActiveState .
- Komodo version 2.0 is not supported on the Windows 95 platform.
- Windows NT4: Komodo updates certain system .dlls that are dependent
on other .dlls installed with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Therefore, NT4
users must have Internet Explorer version 4.01 or greater installed
on their system.
- If you upgraded your system from Win9x/WinME to WinNT/2K, ensure that
your
ComSpec environment variable is configured to
%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe (for example, C:\system32\cmd.exe ).
There was a bug in the Microsoft Windows installer that did not update the variable from
its original value of command.com .
- Visual Studio 6 users with Service Pack 1 need to upgrade to
Visual Studio 6 Service Pack 3 or greater before installing Komodo.
- The Komodo installer requires up to 230 MB in your TMP directory (as indicated by the value of your 'TMP'
environment variable) during installation, even if you plan to install Komodo to another drive. If you do not
have the required space on this drive, manually set the 'TMP' environment variable to another directory
with sufficient space. Ensure you have enough space, temporarily, for installation.
- If you try to install Komodo on Windows and the MSI install fails with error 2355, your MSI
file is corrupt. Please download Komodo again and re-run the MSI install.
- There are known issues regarding the installation of PHP on Windows Millennium systems; please
refer to the PHP site for installation information.
- If a language that is installed on your system is disabled or not available
(in the Preferences, or on the Getting Started page), check that the location
of the language interpreter is specified in your system
PATH
variable.
- On some versions of Windows NT, a dialog will report a missing symbol
during startup. If this message occurs, the Rx Toolkit will not function.
- The first time Komodo is run after installation, it must register a number
of components with the operating system. This causes the first launch to be
considerably slower than subsequent launches.
- Certain programs may cause problems launching
Komodo. For example, server programs such as SQL Server are
known to be problematic. Also, Norton Anti-Virus (NAV), or more specifically,
the File System Realtime Protection feature is problematic. If Komodo fails to
load, examine the applications you are running, and try stopping those that
might be conflicting with Komodo.
- Regardless of the length of a line of code in the editor pane, the
horizontal scroll bar will only allow horizontal scrolling to approximately
300 characters.
- The editing preview is not provided for XML files.
- The macro recorder will record events that it can't handle, such as
the opening of dialogs. The only dialog that can be opened via a macro is
the Find dialog; other dialogs will cause the macro to stop.
- If the Windows taskbar is set to auto-hide and Komodo is maximized, the
the syntax error tooltips displayed over the syntax checking icon will not
be visible.
- The "Edit with Komodo..." option in Windows Explorer will only open the
file if it the first file opened in this Komodo session, or if Komodo is
already running but has no files open.
- SCL and NASSL format Web services are not supported.
- Application Data redirection on Windows: When you install Komodo, if
you redirect the files that Komodo expects to have permissions to
install in your Application Data folder, Komodo and Mozilla can close
unexpectedly.
- The Komodo editor
currently does not support editing in non-English characters. You can open files
stored in non-English encodings, but you cannot edit them.
- Tooltips longer than one line only display the first line due to an
issue with Mozilla.
- Cheyenne Antivirus Realtime Monitor and Komodo on Windows 9x - When RealMon
is set to monitor outgoing files (or both incoming and outgoing files) Komodo's
syntax checking doesn't function.
- Python Autocomplete is limited to the Python modules opened by Komodo; if a
Python module is not opened by Komodo, autocomplete tips will be limited to attributes
that have already been used in the current file.
- On slow networks, users may notice performance degradation when editing files on
network machines. Performance can be improved by disabling the Komodo function
that checks if files on disk have changed. See
Preferences.
- Komodo's debugger is meant to debug single threads. Newly-created
threads or processes (for example, through the use of fork()) are not under
debugger control.
- The Perl debugger intermittently fails to realize that the program is done
debugging, and still indicates a current line even though the program is
done. This is especially likely if the program reads from stdin and is
executed in a separate console.
- The Perl debugger interprets email addresses as list variables.
- Perl strings with an escaped @ symbol show up as an array.
- If you set breakpoints and then subsequently add lines above the breakpoints,
Komodo resets the breakpoints when debugging starts.
- If a breakpoint is set in an included file (called with "use" or "require"),
Komodo will stop on the first line of that file. Continuing with F5 (or another
debugger command) will then break on the breakpoints in that file.
- Due to the way the core Perl interpreter works, it is not possible to
step over "require" statements.
- When using Debian and Komodo, Komodo does not auto-detect the existence
of PHP if it is installed via the Debian package manager. This is due to the
fact that Debian, by default, installs PHP with the name "php4", and not "php".
- You cannot use the 'freestanding' option when debugging Perl Applications
created with the PDK in Komodo. Instead, build a 'dependant' executable, which
requires a local install of Perl.
- The "Delete temp files after each run" option generates an error when
debugging an application with the Perl Dev Kit interface.
- The variable watcher does not work when debugging
\\machine\d$\path\to\perl_script.pl . It does work when
opening the same file via a UNC path that does *not* include a '$' character.
- Under some circumstances, Komodo cannot find PHP interpreters if their location
is specified in a path that contains spaces. For example, if PHP is installed
in the directory "C:\Program Files\Apache Group\php\php.exe", Komodo may not be able
to find the PHP interpreter. Use the shortened format of the path to specify
the location (for example, "C:\PROGRA~1\APACHE~1\php\php.exe").
- Debugging on Windows Me/98: You cannot debug in a
separate console on Win9x machines.
- If your script has syntax errors, the debugger can
fail without warning.
- If Komodo gives an error when you start the
debugger, you need to exit and restart Komodo.
- When you're debugging remote
applications, Komodo fails if the remote process does not have valid
stdout and stderr handles. GUI applications, such as those started with
"wperl.exe" or "pythonw.exe", or those using the
Pythonwin or wxPython frameworks, or those with certain embedded
applications, can have invalid stdout and stderr handles. Until we
resolve this issue, try to run and debug your remote program under
perl.exe or python.exe.
- Python, XSLT and PHP require TCP/IP to be installed and properly configured,
even if you are debugging scripts locally. While TCP/IP is configured by default
on most systems, earlier versions of Windows 95 may require manual TCP/IP
configuration.
- Some version of Windows NT version 4 generate the startup error
"The procedure entry point __lc_collate_cp could not be located in the dynamic
link library MSVCRT.DLL". The same versions may have display problems with
the Rx Toolkit. This is because Komodo requires a version of MSVCRT.DLL which
is more recent than that installed in Windows NT4. Many applications upgrade
the DLL on installation, but Komodo does not at present. As a workaround,
install another program that updates MSVCRT.DLL, such as ActivePython 2.2.
After reboot, you can uninstall the application; the updated MSVCRT.DLL
will not be removed.
- PHP 4.3 is not supported in this version of Komodo.
- After upgrading Windows 9x or Windows Me to Windows 2000, the
COMSPEC environment variable is still set to "command.com", rather than
being updated to "cmd.exe". Komodo runs into several problems if COMSPEC is
set to "command.com" on Windows 2000 and XP.
- In file picker dialogs that display a list of files, when "All files" is
specified, files that begin with a period are not displayed.
- If the Perforce connection cannot be established, checking the status
of files in a Perforce repository will hang Komodo.
- The Output tab cuts off lines at 250 characters.
- Macros will not record certain commands, including (but possibly not
limited to) Ctrl-Shift-b|r|e|d (toggle toolbars or button text),
Ctrl-Shift-n (new default file), and View as Language menu items.
- The "Import from File System" function is very slow on large file
systems.
- If you are using CVS Source Code Control, note that the very first time
you login to a repository, cvs.exe fails to create the .cvspass file correctly
and will return an error. Repeat the command to login a second time and
correctly generate the file. This is a CVS bug.
- If you are using CVS Source Code Control on Windows 98 or Me, the
environment variables
HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH
must be configured on your system. Typically, HOMEDRIVE is set
to "c:", and HOMEPATH is set to "\".
- On Linux, install Komodo into a directory path that only includes
alphanumeric characters. Komodo is known to have trouble with paths that
include spaces and some non-alphanumeric characters.
- Filenames or paths containing non-ASCII characters cannot be opened
remotely.
- The Editor pane has refresh problems when Komodo menus are moved over
the editor pane. Scrolling or resizing the editor pane will force a refresh.
- Key bindings defined in the window manager (such as KDE) take precedence
over Komodo key bindings. In the case of conflicts, you must either change
the Komodo key bindings or the window manager key bindings.
- You cannot relocate an existing Komodo installation to a new directory.
You must uninstall Komodo from the existing location and reinstall it in the
new location.
- The Komodo license will be sent to the email address you
provided during registration. You must install this license. You will get
an error if you try to install the license from within Komodo by selecting
a "License" link.
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